How popular is “Scarlett” in the USA?

Number of people named “Scarlett” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Scarlett” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Scarlett” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Scarlett” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Scarlett” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Scarlett” by birth year

This chart shows how “Scarlett” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1937	7	0.000003285	7		100%
1938	6	0.000002712	6		100%
1939	7	0.000003177	7		100%
1940	59	0.000025622	59		100%
1941	77	0.000031604	77		100%
1942	76	0.00002782	76		100%
1943	68	0.000024092	68		100%
1944	45	0.000016728	45		100%
1945	34	0.000012816	34		100%
1946	46	0.000014396	46		100%
1947	43	0.000011937	43		100%
1948	65	0.000018827	65		100%
1949	53	0.000015209	53		100%
1950	57	0.00001627	57		100%
1951	39	0.000010587	39		100%
1952	34	0.000008952	34		100%
1953	37	0.000009601	37		100%
1954	46	0.000011556	46		100%
1955	96	0.00002391	96		100%
1956	75	0.00001819	75		100%
1957	68	0.000016182	68		100%
1958	59	0.000014272	59		100%
1959	49	0.000011785	49		100%
1960	68	0.00001637	68		100%
1961	114	0.000027521	114		100%
1962	131	0.000032463	131		100%
1963	115	0.000029054	115		100%
1964	113	0.000029067	113		100%
1965	103	0.00002841	103		100%
1966	76	0.000021866	76		100%
1967	78	0.000022976	78		100%
1968	101	0.000029896	101		100%
1969	89	0.000025609	89		100%
1970	107	0.000029669	107		100%
1971	92	0.000026804	92		100%
1972	87	0.000027681	87		100%
1973	74	0.000024529	74		100%
1974	85	0.000027961	85		100%
1975	53	0.000017553	53		100%
1976	96	0.000031638	96		100%
1977	133	0.00004187	133		100%
1978	87	0.000027411	87		100%
1979	108	0.000032462	108		100%
1980	122	0.000035419	122		100%
1981	113	0.000032665	113		100%
1982	87	0.000024801	87		100%
1983	91	0.000026275	91		100%
1984	124	0.000035543	124		100%
1985	112	0.00003138	112		100%
1986	137	0.000038515	137		100%
1987	152	0.000042156	152		100%
1988	132	0.000035724	132		100%
1989	138	0.000035896	138		100%
1990	167	0.000042252	167		100%
1991	152	0.000039022	152		100%
1992	204	0.000053107	204		100%
1993	250	0.000066308	250		100%
1994	235	0.000063212	235		100%
1995	272	0.000074273	272		100%
1996	248	0.000067997	248		100%
1997	231	0.000063711	231		100%
1998	254	0.000069055	254		100%
1999	245	0.000066326	245		100%
2000	227	0.000060054	227		100%
2001	237	0.000063312	237		100%
2002	290	0.000077576	290		100%
2003	327	0.000086	327		100%
2004	538	0.000140804	538		100%
2005	733	0.000190645	733		100%
2006	1116	0.00028209	1116		100%
2007	1583	0.000395979	1583		100%
2008	1621	0.000412398	1621		100%
2009	1929	0.000504951	1922	7	99%
2010	2717	0.000735171	2717		100%
2011	3564	0.000974358	3564		100%
2012	4051	0.001107627	4045	6	100%
2013	5053	0.001386029	5053		100%
2014	6010	0.00162153	6010		100%
2015	7143	0.001930065	7143		100%
2016	7721	0.002104561	7716	5	100%
2017	7719	0.002158439	7719		100%
2018	7229	0.00205609	7223	6	100%
2019	7089	0.00204239	7084	5	100%
2020	6523	0.001952657	6518	5	100%
2021	6627	0.001956051	6627		100%
2022	7256	0.002144756	7256		100%
2023	6317	0.00190777	6311	6	100%
2024	5900	0.00177257	5894	6	100%

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